Gordon Chang on China’s Threat, Trump’s Summit Strategy, and Global Espionage
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity continues his China summit analysis with Gordon Chang, author of Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America. Chang explains why China’s surveillance and cyber tactics remain a serious threat, while Sean shares new details about burner phones, security precautions, and the message sent by the U.S. delegation. They also examine President Trump’s strategy with President Xi, including the decision to bring American CEOs into the room and the potential impact on trade, Iran, Taiwan, and U.S.-China relations. Later, Sean turns to Iran, Israel’s fight for survival, and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s warning about massive health care fraud inside Medicare and Medicaid.
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| 0:13.0 | I can give you a couple of more tidbits about the trip that I took to China, |
| 0:17.8 | even though Gordon Chang tried to scare the living hell out of me and not going the |
| 0:21.4 | trip. He's going to join us in a minute. I could tell you when the opening meeting started, |
| 0:27.9 | and President Trump in the past has described his interactions with President Xi. And what's |
| 0:36.2 | fascinating to me about it is that when the president of China comes in, |
| 0:42.0 | he is all business. There's very little niceties, pleasantries. It's like, here's the agenda, |
| 0:49.3 | let's go. And from the get go, all of these high-powered U.S. CEOs, |
| 0:55.7 | and I told you about Mr. Wong, the head of Navidia and Elon Musk, |
| 1:00.0 | and pretty much the head of every major corporation in America was there. |
| 1:04.8 | And they were in another room. |
| 1:07.4 | This is just before the bilateral meeting with the president |
| 1:10.7 | right after the big ceremony that took |
| 1:12.4 | place at the hall of the people and it was fascinating the president we have all these guys |
| 1:19.6 | let's invite him in and president she's like what because it went against the planned agenda |
| 1:24.3 | but president trump persuaded him to let them in the room, which is just, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, as unpredictable as you would expect President Trump to be. And it was very, very cool |
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